When should I choose one or the other? What are the implications regarding space and (full-text) indexing?
BTW: I’m currently using SQL Server 2005 planing to upgrade to 2008 in the following months.
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When should I choose one or the other? What are the implications regarding space and (full-text) indexing?
BTW: I’m currently using SQL Server 2005 planing to upgrade to 2008 in the following months.
Thanks
The new (max) fields make it a lot easier to deal with the data from .NET code. With
varbinary(max), you simply set the value of aSqlParameterto a byte array and you are done. WIth the image field, you need to write a few hundred lines of code to stream the data into and out of the field.Also, the image/text fields are deprecated in favor of
varbinary(max)andvarchar(max), and future versions of Sql Server will discontinue support for them.